All Building articles in 17 June 2011 – Page 5
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Features
King's Cross station's £500m redevelopment: King of King's
King’s Cross station was long ago toppled from its architectural throne by neighbouring St Pancras. But a £500m refurbishment is about to make it a terminus worthy of the people
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Cutting skyscraper costs by 50%: Shape of things to come
A crack team has been thinking up ways of cutting the costs of London skyscrapers by a whopping 50%. Emily Wright, who has been given an exclusive preview of the research, looks at how the proposals stack up
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Rider Levett Bucknall scoops £5bn Saudi Arabian job
Cost consultant’s initial three-year deal is latest for its business in the country
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Comment
Lawyers just don't NEC3's choice of words
A lawyer has just won a prize for a paper that challenges the NEC evangelists. You don’t have to like it, just read it. Then you too can be the judge
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Top firms nab 23% more work in May
Public sector boosts contractors’ workload, but performance is still worse than same period last year
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International salary survey 2011: Expect the exodus
With growth in the UK still sluggish and the Middle East showing no sign of revival, it’s the dominions - New Zealand, Australia and Canada - that offer the best overseas opportunities, as this year’s Hays Salary Survey shows
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St Modwen's £200m war chest: With open arms
Regeneration specialist St Modwen would like contractors across the UK to get in touch - over the next six months, it has some £200m of tendering to get done
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St Modwen to tender £200m of work in next six months
Developer invites new supply chain members to bid for projects up and down the UK
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Labour backs Morrell's plan to cut building costs 20%
Ian Lucas’ support comes as construction adviser outlines strategy at Building’s parliamentary reception
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Hyder posts pre-tax profit of £18m on global revenue
This comes despite dip in business in the Middle East
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Collapsed Kinetics arms owe subbies ‘less than £1m’
Social housing contractor sheds 270 employees as it shuts northern business
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Contractors in London: who is winning the most work?
Morgan Sindall in lead with most projects, but Carillion bag schemes with the biggest total value
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RIBA opens nominations for student awards
Institute invites 300 schools of architecture from 60 countries to nominate for President’s Medals Student Awards 2011
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Facebook beats Twitter and LinkedIn in survey
Survey also finds that half of Building4job subscribers applied for work using the jobs site
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Features
AA students challenge architectural space
Concrete Geometries: How Spaces Move People features 20 projects by a group of international students, architects and designers
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Mott MacDonald to build eight learning centres in Namibia
Project is part of US government backed educational programme
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Firm fined £8,000 after falling cladding nearly severs pensioner's foot
Firm used wrong type of nails, says Health and Safety Executive
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Kinetics subsidiary wound up
DC Group, acquired by social housing firm in 2006, closed down after court hearing yesterday
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AA School Project View: Until 9 July
The Architectural Association School’s summer exhibition Projects Review is an opportunity to see the drawings, models, designs and minds of an emerging generation of architects. Hundreds of drawings, models, installations and photographs will be on display in a series of large galleries within the AA’s Georgian buildings alongside large ...